8.28.2014

Today is the 28th of the month and that means the Calendar Girls crafty group, of which I'm blessed to be a member of, posts our cards with a chosen theme by the hostess of the month.

This month, our lovely hostess Sweet P, camper and lover of life on the go!!

She gave us quite a challenge indeed ... at least for me!

She asked us to create a card/project with Punch Art.

So what's a girl to do?

Head to Pinterest! I found this card that inspired me.

Seriously! I can do some punch art ...

like the wee pumpkin I made awhile back using an oval punch ...

big leagues, lol!

Here's my "Havin' a RUFF day?" card, modeled off of this one

I found on Pinterest.

I left the color scheme the same because it looked like our precious Buddy!

(my son's sweet Jack Russell doggie)

Which is perfect, since we just celebrated "National Doggie Day!",
or so my daughter's Instagram pictures said it was :)

Please be sure to hop on over to my sidebar
and see what the rest of the Calendar Girls have created ...
You won't be disappointed, that's for sure - these are some UBER
talented ladies who know how to PUNCH! *grin!*

8.25.2014

We're full swing back to school here with a terrific first week behind us ♥My son started a new school this year and came home with smiles and tales of his new classroom.He's a friendly kid that makes fast friends anywhere he goes and walked to pick up point flanked by two new faces,chatting away! In one week, he got settled into his new class,bought lunch in a 'real cafeteria with a real metal tray!' (this apparently was BIG STUFF ... who knew!),tried out for a part in the classroom play, trying out for a tiny role ...and landed a lead after the teacher heard him reading - my baby!Speaking of reading, today's post is from the Cornish Heritage FarmsStamp Company and our challenge this week is from Irit.We are to make Anything But a Card (or ABC).For my sweet little man, I made him a bookmark.I thought it would be perfect for his back to school reads ♥

For my bookmark, I used the corner bookmark style.Super easy!When the book closes, it's super flat and keeps the place nicely.I've added the digi "All Ears" by Cornish Heritage Farms to this bookmark,colored in prismacolor markers.He appreciated it and added it his library book straight away(not this one, this is just a photo op book - LOL!)and I got a big 'ol hug in return!I love my son! ♥

We'd love for you to play along in the challenge!If you'd like to add your CHF cards/or ABC projects this week,

Since we post the day after my wedding anniversary, I would like everyone to make a project based on one of the scriptures read at my wedding:

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 "Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." Your card doesn't need to be based on a spousal love, and as such. I would love to hear a story of one of your loves!